(6) The police officer or other person must not search the genital area of the person searched, or in the case of female or a transgender person who identifies as a female, the person’s breasts unless the police officer or person suspects on reasonable grounds that it is necessary to do so for the purposes of the search. (5) The police officer or other person must conduct the least invasive kind of search practicable in the circumstances. (b) as quickly as is reasonably practicable. (5) In conducting a search of a person under this section, a police officer may request the person to produce either or both of the following: (4) In conducting a search of a person under this section, a police officer must, in the case of a search of a student in a school and if reasonably possible to do so, allow the student to nominate an adult who is on the school premises to be present during the search. (3) For the purposes of this section, the fact that a person is present in a location with a high incidence of violent crime may be taken into account in determining whether there are reasonable grounds to suspect that the person has a dangerous implement in his or her custody. (2) If the person is in a school and is a student at the school, the police officer may also request that the person submit to a search of the person’s locker at the school and an examination of any bag or other personal effect that is inside the locker.
(cf Summary Offences Act 1988, s 28A) (1) A police officer may request a person who is in a public place or a school to submit to a frisk search if the police officer suspects on reasonable grounds that the person has a dangerous implement in his or her custody.
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